The mirror plated supercar is a quintessential part of Gulf Arab car culture, along with the Transformers Camry and the fetishistic application of negative camber. When applied by Britain’s eternal and chamaeleonic rock star David Bowie to a plain old Mini, including all its windows, it becomes something else entirely.

My parents are research scientists and their work took us to the US when I was growing up. When we moved back to Hungary, on July 16, 1993, I saved a can of Coke on the plane home. I drank it yesterday.

What a way to turn a perfectly pedestrian activity into something very uncanny: A row of upright BMW 700 body shells on a Krupp truck with a Venn diagram for a logo. It’s like a secret Europe that’s hard to believe ever existed.

Low-digit license plates are big in Arabia. Abu Dhabi’s 1 sold for $14 million in 2008 while in neighboring Dubai 1 is registered to Sheikh Mohammed, the emirate’s ruler. This is plate number 1 from Oman attached to 612 hp of German bliss and I saw it go like hell.

A drizzle of rain, a sprinkling of team orders, a dash of slapstick, and Sebastian Vettel being Sebastian Vettel: the F1 race in Malaysia was a bit of a handful. Here’s a selection of the most interesting photos from the wire services.

In three months, a swarm of Audis, Corvette C6.R’s and Aston Martins will descend on Le Mans to race against the clock for the 81st time. The 24 hours is the greatest celebration of motor racing and part of the fun is the car you drive there.

This is not a small lake. It’s the pickup bed of a Chevrolet SSR, photographed in a quaint little Hungarian village whose streets are only just wide enough for such exuberant American eccentricity. I cannot think of a weirder product in General Motors’s long history but maybe you can?

Pulp Fiction turns 20 this year and it’s one movie with some iconic car scenes. The red Malibu, the gray NSX, the radically redecorated Nova. So how about a more obscure one, a poster of gorgeous cars hanging on the wall of Bruce Willis’s character Butch’s apartment? That’s a Gullwing in the middle. But can you name…

Whoever was responsible for picking the outfits for Jeep’s hostesses at the Geneva Motor Show did a spectacular job. They were by far the best-dressed women at the show, displaying a masterful blend of Americana with a European touch.

Lewis “I Really Like To Name-Drop Ayrton Senna” Hamilton may have a flashy new car at Mercedes but he’s also got some issues with self-importance. In a slightly surreal interview with The Guardian, he talked about building a museum for his trophies and his self-designed helmets, his new dog, and his new $30M plane.

Remember this little guy from 2006, the hydrofoil car Rinspeed CEO Frank Rinderknecht drove, if that’s the right word, across the English Channel? It’s real. The Rinspeed Splash was on display in Geneva. And while it will never cease being surreal to think it’s a hydrofoil car it’s hydrofoil car it’s hydrofoil car…

New new cars. Too heavy, doors too high to cock your elbow out, weird plastics, the works. It’s not a problem old Morgans have. Come and join us in the oldest new car on the show floor, the Morgan 4/4.